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UNI VERSA LISTS. 



UTAH. 



The Secretary, in conclusion, insists upon a 

 recasting of all our customs collection laws, in 

 order to adapt them to the growth and changes 

 of commercial methods ; but he does not think 

 this can be entered upon until the country 

 comes to a decided conclusion in respect to 

 the future course and method of taxation. 



TNIVERSALISTS. The statistical tables of the 

 Universalist Church, as given in the " Univer- 

 salist Register" for 1887, show the number of 

 parishes to be 945; of families, 38,429; of 

 churches, 695, with 35,550 members; of Sun- 

 day-schools, 634, with 53,553 members; of 

 church edifices, 789 ; value of church property, 

 $7,403,927. 



The funds of the General Convention were 

 reported at the session of that body, in Octo- 

 ber, to amount in the aggregate to $170,918, 

 distributed as follows : Murray Centenary 

 fund, $123,577; Theological Scholarship fund, 

 $25,002; Church Extension fund, $3,988; 

 Gunn Ministerial Relief fund, $10,452; Ada 

 Tibbetts Memorial fund, $T,900. The total 

 increase of the Convention funds during the 

 year had been $15,245. The receipts of the 

 Woman's Centenary Association had been 

 $8,090, its permanent fund amounted to $6,300. 

 It supported a missionary in Scotland, co-oper- 

 ated with the General Convention in sustain- 

 ing a missionary in Texas, and had published 

 and distributed 68 tracts. The twelve literary 

 and theological institutions of the Church re- 

 turned 109 professors and teachers, 1,303 stu- 

 dents, and property valued at $2,473.000, seven 

 of them had received legacies during the year 

 amounting in all to $75,000. 



The Universalist General Convention met at 

 Akron, Ohio, in October. The Rev. E. C. 

 Sweetser, D. D., was chosen president. The 

 question of the provision that should be made 

 for increasing the ministry of the Church was 

 discussed, and it was decided that the desired 

 end could be most surely reached by securing 

 the attendance of graduates from Universalist 

 colleges upon the theological institutions of 

 the Church. A Board of Foreign Missions was 

 established. Measures were taken for organ- 

 izing a Universalist Temperance Association. 

 A Bureau of Sunday-School Superintendents 

 was created. Propositions were submitted, to 

 be reported upon at the next meeting of the 

 Convention, for making the sessions of the 

 body biennial, instead of annual, and for hold- 

 ing, every two years, a Church Congress under 

 the direction of the Board of Trustees. 



UTAH. Territorial Government The following 

 were the Territorial officers during the year : 

 Governor, Eli H. Murray, succeeded by Ca- 

 leb W. West; Secretary, Arthur L. Thomas; 

 Treasurer, James Jack ; Auditor, Nephi W. 

 Clayton; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, L. J. Nuttall. Supreme Court: Chief- 

 Justice, Charles S. Zane; Associate Justices, 

 Orlando W. Powers and Jacob S. Boreman. 

 On the 2d of November John T. Caine, Mor- 

 mon, was re-elected delegate to Congress, his 



vote being 19,605, against 2,810 for the Gentile 

 candidate, and 68 scattering; total, 22,483. 

 Summit County alone gave a Gentile majority. 

 There were no returns from San Juan County. 

 Schools* The following is a comparative 

 statement of the condition of the public schools 

 in the years 1884-'85 : 



On Feb. 28, 1850, an act was passed by the 

 provisional government of the State of Deseret 

 incorporating the University of the State of 

 Deseret, and this action wus approved by the 

 Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah 

 on Oct. 4, 1851. The act provided for the lo- 

 cation of the university at Salt Lake City. It 

 had but a nominal existence until March 8, 

 1869, when it was organized. The Legislative 

 Assembly, at the session of 1876, provided for 

 an annual appropriation of $5,000, in return 

 for which forty pupils, selected from the differ- 

 ent counties of the Territory, were to be edu- 

 cated free in the normal department. In 1880 

 an additional appropriation of $20,000 was 

 made to aid in the erection of a building, the 

 cost of which was estimated at $75,000. Aid 

 was also secured from other sources. The 

 present liabilities are $41,673.43, and it is esti- 

 mated that $23,326.57 will be required to com- 

 plete the building. In 1884, $4,000 was appro- 

 priated for a department for the education of 

 deaf-mutes. In 1884 a class of fifteen, and in 

 1885 a class of eighteen, deaf-mutes was en- 

 rolled. Of university students, in 1884, 230 

 males and 138 females were in attendance, 

 over 40 being in the normal department. In 

 1885 214 males and 139 females were in at- 

 tendance, 62 in the normal department. 



In connection with the work of educating 

 the youth of the Territory is the system of 

 mission-schools established by different Chris- 

 tian denominations. The following table shows 

 the number of schools, etc. : 



Of the 837 enrolled pupils in the Methodist 

 schools, 247 were from Mormon families, and 

 279 from apostate Mormon families. 



Insane Asylum. This institution, at Provo, 



